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black blotches, its sides varied with a few spots, but none 

 at the smaller end. Another egg had a large black 

 blotch on the centre of the broad end, from which 

 diverged numerous spots, which became smaller in size 

 as they approached the narrow end ; ground-colour white. 

 A third had some well-defined but irregularly shaped 

 black spots scattered over it upon a greenish-white 

 ground. These eggs were procured on May 26, 1852, and 

 incubation had just commenced." 



Writing in 1868, Mr. J. Hunter says that a "Guille- 

 mot was shot on November 9, at Faversham Creek, fully 

 two miles from the open sea." There is a male in the 

 Maidstone Museum which was picked up after a storm 

 on Boxley Hill, on November 16, 1884, by Mr. A. F. 

 Style. 



Colonel H. W. Fielden, in 1887, writes : " A visitor to 

 the cliff immediately below the South Foreland Light- 

 houses will be further gratified by finding that a consider- 

 able colony of Guillemots make it their breeding-station. 

 It is a very bold, perpendicular headland, and I should 

 consider it to be only accessible to experienced cragsmen 

 with proper appliances. To stand below this cliff and 

 watch the Guillemots shoot down from their lofty ledges 

 to the sea is a very pretty sight. My eye could not dis- 

 cern any movement in their wings ; the feet stretched 

 out behind seemed to be the guiding power. I picked up 

 one little downy black young one at the base of the cliff, 

 which shows that the Guillemots breed there." 



